Working With File System In PHP – Full PHP 8 Tutorial

In this PHP tutorial, you will learn how to work with files & filesystem in PHP. You will learn how to create & delete directories, open files, put content, read content, read files line by line, read CSV files, some tips & things to be aware of such as return value caching for some of the file related functions.

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LESSON 1.30
Course Outline – https://github.com/ggelashvili/learnphptherightway-outline
Course Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?listPLr3d3QYzkw2xabQRUpcZ_IBk9W50M9pe-

RESOURCES
Docs for clearstatcache & list of affected functions – https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.clearstatcache.php
Docs for fopen & modes – https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
Filesystem functions – https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

CHAPTERS
00:00 – List of all files & directories – scandir
00:44 – Check if file is a directory or a file – is_dir / is_file
00:58 – Create & delete directories – mkdir / rmdir
02:02 – Check if file or directory exists & print filesize – file_exists / filesize
02:28 – Clear cached values of functions like filesize – clearstatcache
03:30 – Open files & resource data type – fopen
04:25 – Using error control operator to suppress warnings
05:25 – Read files line by line – fgets / fclose
06:25 – Read csv files – fgetcsv
07:02 – Get file contents & store in a variable – file_get_contents
07:57 – Write content to a file – file_put_contents
08:50 – Delete, copy, rename & move files – unlink / copy / rename
09:34 – Get information about a file – pathinfo

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